Garment-pocket



CE. BENNETT.

GARMENT POCKET.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 1o, 1920.

Patented Aug. 9, 1921.

PATENT orFlcE.

CYRUS E. BENNETT, OF BUFFALO, NEVIYORK- ennivrnnr-rocirnr.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Laatste.

Patented Aug. 9, 1921.

Application filed March 10, 1920. Serial No.kk 364,667'.

To all 'w hom t may concern Be it known that I, CYnUs E. BENNETT, a citizen of the United States, residing at Buffalo, in the county of Erie and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Garment-Pockets, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a garment pocket, and more particularly to a pocket having means to lock it against surreptitious entrance so as to guard against theft of the contents.

My invention has for its object the provision of a simple and effective device of thisl character which may be applied to any form of pocket and be easily manipulated by the wearer of the garment equipped with the pocket so improved.

The invention consists in the novel features of construction and in the arrangement and combination of parts to be hereinafter described and more particularly pointed out in the subjoined claims.

In the drawings: n

Figure 1 is a sectional elevation of a garment showing a portion thereof broken away to illustrate my improved pocket, the pocket being shown locked against entrance I thereto.

Fig. 2 is a cross section through the pocket taken on or about line 2 2, Fig. l, the` pocket being shown extended to permit entrance thereto.

In the drawing, A represents an outer garment, in this particular instance, a portion of a pair of trousers having a side pocket formed with an entrance along the outer seam of one of the trouser legs. B is the conventional form of trouser pocket, openingat a side seam. At intervals around the pocket I provide openings C, which are preferably in the form of eyelets fastened into the material from which'the pocket is r'fonstructed, but these openings may be votherwise formed if desired.

Passing through the openings-in a zigzag manner, as clearly shown `inF ig. 2, is a nonelastic draw or shirring string or band D, with the ends thereof suitably connected so that it is in the form of an endless band after it is passed back and forth through the openings in the pocket. rlfhis string or band is therefore arranged to have parts thereof lie alternately outside and inside of the pocket, as clearly shown in Fig. 2, and when the pocket is extended so that entrance may.

the entrance of matter into the pocket, or

the removal of the same therefrom.

Arranged at the opening of the pocket,

preferably at a high point, is a retainer E, which in the drawing is shown in the form of a spring hook sewed to the pocket directly inside of the opening thereof, and when it is desired to close the pocket inside of the entrance opening or, in other words, lock the pocket, as it may be termed, it is simply necessary to grip the draw or shirring string or band at F, Fig. 2, and pull on the same soas to provide a loose part or loop, which part or loop may be engaged with the retainer or spring hoolr, the space between the free end of the hook and the body of the retainer being preferably a trie smaller than the diameter of the string or band so that it will be necessary to exert force to slip the string or band over the hook or to remove the same therefrom. When this draw or shirring string or band is pulled upon and engaged with the retainer E, the pocket will be shirred or drawn together in parallel runnings between its ends and thus prevent entrance to the pocket, thereby assuring safety to its contents.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is l. In combination with a garment, a pocket in said garment having a series of openings, non-elastic shirring means passed through said openings and adapted to shirr the material of the pocket to lock the pocket against entrance, and means within said pocket to hold the shirring means in locking position.

2. In combination with a garment, a pocket in said garment having a series of spaced openings around the same, a shirring string passed through said openings to shirr the pocket and lock the same against entrance, and "means within said pocket to retain the freely drawn portion of the shirring string against movement so as to prevent the extending or opening of the pocket. 3. In combination with a garment, a pocket within said garment, a shirring string applied to said pocketand adapted to be drawn upon to shirrpsaid pocket between its ends, and a retaining device within said pocket conveniently accessible through the opening of said pocket and adapted to be engaged by the drawn-out portion of said shirring` string to hold the string against nnloosening.

4. In combination With a garment, a pocket in said garment having a series of openings around the same, en endless nonelastio shirring string passed through seid openings and adapted to be drawn upon to shirr the pocket in the regions of said open- 10 ings, and a retainer hook in the pocket above said openings onto which the drawn out portion of the shirring string is t0 be hooked when the pocket is shirred.

In testimony whereof aiix my signature. 15

CYRUS E. BENNETT. 

